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The Bronx

Six armed teens invaded a Concourse home, authorities said Sunday. Four girls and two boys entered a building on Gerard Avenue and made their way up to a second- floor apartment at around 2:40 a.m. Jan. 16. The thieves burst into the apartment with guns drawn and robbed four men, ages 33, 23, 20 and 16. They escaped with three cellphones, an iPad Mini and a video-game system, cops said.

Two men stole more than $1,200 from a Soundview barber shop, police sources said Sunday. The masked gunmen entered the VIP Barbershop on Commonwealth Avenue at around 6 p.m. Tuesday and ordered an employee to open a metal lock box in the back of the store. They fled with cash.

Brooklyn

Four stocky teens robbed several women in Brighton Beach, authorities said Sunday. The thieves first grabbed the purse of a 79-year-old woman walking at Ocean Parkway and Brighton 1 Street at around 1 p.m. on Jan. 7. They then pushed a 64-year-old woman to the ground at Oceanview Avenue and Brighton 5 Street, and then stole her cellphone and purse, at around 12:15 p.m. the next day, cops said. In the most recent incident, the thugs stole a purse off the shoulder of a 55-year-old woman at Brighton Beach Avenue and Brighton 6 Street at around 3:30 p.m. Jan. 11. The thieves all are around 15 years old. They each stand approximately 5-feet tall and weigh around 150 pounds.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a threatening message left on a Jewish family’s answering machine in Kensington, police sources said Sunday. The caller left the message Friday night, saying he was going to shoot rabbis around Borough Park and Williamsburg. He also made several anti-Semitic remarks.

Manhattan

Police are trying to identify a women who allegedly used a stolen credit card in Harlem. The woman used the card at a fast-food restaurant on 125th Street, according to authorities.

Two armed thugs robbed an electronics store in Washington Heights, police sources said Sunday. The men were wearing masks when they burst into Hi End Electronics on Broadway near West 151st Street at around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday and threatened to shoot a 32-year-old employee. The thieves ordered the worker to open the store’s safe, from which they removed several thousand dollars and various electronic devices. Police quickly picked up two men, but later released them after concluding they were not involved, according to authorities.

A pharmacy employee was slashed on the hand when she tried to stop two men from shoplifting several bottles of cold medicine in Midtown, police sources said Sunday. The thieves entered the CVS on Third Avenue near East 47th Street at around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday and began taking bottles from the shelves and loading them into backpacks, cops said. The 34-year-old employee intervened when she saw what they were doing — prompting one of the thugs to pull out a razor and cut her on the finger, according to the sources. The men were around 18 years old.

Queens

A man robbed a woman at knifepoint at her Ridgewood home, authorities said Sunday. The victim was approaching the entrance to her Centre Street apartment building and was about to unlock the door when a man came up behind her and put a knife to her neck at around 5 p.m. Wednesday, according to authorities. He demanded that she hand over money and the woman did as she was told, police said. The man then told the victim to open the door — and proceeded to ransack her apartment, stealing more cash from a drawer in her bedroom, authorities said. The woman was not injured.